Pin-ticket



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T. MOORE. PIN TICKET.

No. 243,786. Patented Ju1y5, 1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS MOORE, on BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

PIN-TICKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,786, dated July 5,1881.

Application filed May 20, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS MOORE, ofBrooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Pin-Tickets, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to pin-tickets, or that class of tickets or tagswhich are adapted to be secured to fibrous material by means of pinsattached to their rear sides and projecting at right angles therefrom,and which are sometimes known as size and quality tickets.

The object of the invention is to lessen the cost and facilitate themanufacture of said tickets; and it consists in forming in the centralpart of the rear side of the ticket two parallel passages extendinglengthwise of the ticket and about half-way through it, so as to leavethe front part of the ticket intact. The wire of which the pins are madeis shaped like the letter M with the Outside legs greatly prolonged, andthese prolonged legs of the M- shaped staple are passed through the twoparallel passages made in the back of the ticket as far as it ispossible to do so, and the free ends are bent up at right angles, thusformin g two pins adapted to be pressed through the material to whichthe ticket is to be secured. The pins by this means are firmly attachedto the ticket 5 and they are further caused to retain their position bythe central bend of the M-shaped staple lying close to the back of theticket, between the two parallel passages.

' To describe my invention more particularly, I will refer to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in whichFigure 1 is a perspective view of my improved pin-ticket complete. Fig.2 is a view of the M-shaped staple.\ Fig. 3 is a plan view of theticket, showing the two parallel passages formed in its back. Fig. 4 isa transverse section of Fig. 1, enlarged; and Fig. 5 is a similartransverse section of a completed ticket, showing a-modification in theconstruction.

The ticket at is made of thick paper, cardboard, or other suitablematerial, and has two holes or passages, a, in its rear side, as shownat Fig. 1, formed therein by means of a curved piercing-tool or bymeansof a straight piercer,

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the ticket being bent to allow the piercer to enter and leave the rearside without going entirely through it.

The retaining-pins b b are made from a piece of wire, which is formedinto a staple somewhat like the letter M, as shown at Fig. 2. The freeends I) b, which form the pins, and which are pointed, are passedthrough the holes or passages a in the ticket until the outside bends ofthe staple come in contact with the entrance ends of the passages a,when the two free ends I) b are bent up at right angles. The centralbend, 0, lies against the back of the ticket, between the two passagesa, thus assisting to retain the pins firmly in position.

Fig. 4 shows the relative positions of the ticket at and the differentparts of the M shaped staple when the pin-ticket is completed. The partof the staple which enters the body of the ticket to does not passentirely through the ticket, leaving the front face of the ticket smoothand unbroken; but for some purposes, and when the tickets are made of amaterial which will not bear splitting to form the two parallel passagesa, the holes where the staple enters and leaves the ticket will be madeentirely through it, so that parts of the staple will be exposed at thefront face, as shown at Fig. 5.

This ticket is applied to mark goods, as ordinarily, by pressing thepins through the goods and then bending them down parallel to theticket, so that they will hold the ticket securely to the same.

This construction of pin-ticket is such that it may be made on anautomatic machine. The card-board or other material, being fed into themachine in a strip, is passed over a guide, which bends itlongitudinally. A piercer then forms the parallel holes across thestrip, and the M-shaped staples are formed from a coil of wire andpassed through the holes and then bent up at right angles, as described.The strip then passes under a knife or die, which cuts the tickets fromthe strip completed in any desired shape.

Having now described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, 1s-' 1. In a pin-ticket, in combination, an M- structedand combined substantially as and 10 shaped staple and a perforatedticket, said for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

M-shaped staple being. passed through the body of the ticket and bent upat right angles 5 threto, so that the bends and free ends of the stapleare at one side thereof, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

2. The ticket 00, provided with parallel passages a, and the M-shapedstaple b b 0, con- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this18th day of May, 1881.

' THOMAS MOORE.

Witnesses ALFRED SHEDLooK, H. D. WILLIAMS.

